Cyber Security Applications in the Modern Tourism Industry

The main objective of the study is to demonstrate the importance of cyber security in the applications of the modern tourism industry, and to study the most important safe practices in the preservation of digital databases in all aspects of the modern tourism industry, including airlines, travel & tourism offices, and facilities of hospitality. It aims to enhance the security of the electronic information policy, both Descriptive and Spatial, securing digital networks, and providing possible tools and means for the sustainable preservation of digital databases, in order to achieve all the competitive and comparative advantages of all parties to the modern tourism industry, through helping decision makers to understand the importance of adopting cybersecurity in all inputs of the tourism and hospitality industry in the current century, in light of the enormous expansion in the concepts of smart tourism. The study found out the importance of cybersecurity along with physical security in tourism, which is the most important key in the process of development, marketing and management of tourist sites at the time being. Keywords: E-Tourism, Cyber Security, Cyber Space, Cyber Governance, Cloud Computing, Cyber Risks. DOI: 10.7176/JTHS/43-05 Publication date:September 30th 201